Re: errors during recent dist-upgrades
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> APT does not do what? You aren't making much sense to me.
It doesn't guarentee that dpkg gets all members of the depends loop at
once.
> Assuming both are unpacked, a simple dpkg --configure -a will configure
> both. Or a simple dpkg --configure wordnet wordnet-base. Neither is
APT does not use --configure -a, it interferes with things like the CD
swap, immediate configure, and so on.
> a long command line. And I believe depend loops are seldom longer than
> a couple packages.
But APT batches a large number of configure requests all at once, so what
has happened is that a split between the runs of dpkg occures between the
two wordnet packages.
> I don't see any bug reports against wordnet. What kind of bugs are you
> talking about?
Look again, I just filed one
Jason
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